Hegelian abrogation verbs simultaneously mean abandoning and preserving

Evidence

Let us return to the relation between abrogation and Aufhebung. The verbs ablegen (‘to remove’, ‘to discard’), aufgehen (‘to disappear’), ablassen (‘to leave off’), weglassen (‘to let go’), also contain this double meaning of suppressing and preserving. Ablegen means ‘to take off’, ‘to lift off’, ‘to get rid of’, ‘to cast off’, but also ‘to ïŹle away’. The moments of the System are at once ‘left behind’ and used (‘preserved’) in the very space they convert for their own use. Aufgeben means on the one hand to abandon, to leave, to mourn; on the other hand to register, to put in, to send off (as one would send something by the post). Each moment mourns (fait le deuil) its uniqueness and renounces its separate and distinct autonomy, thereby both integrating and preserving itself in the totality. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1091

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Clarifies how the German verbs ablegen/aufgehen/ablassen/weglassen carry the double meaning of suppression-and-preservation that defines abrogation.
  • XREF: Connects to the reader’s plasticity work — the conceptual pairing of renunciation and preservation mirrors biological processes where loss (cell death, pruning) is simultaneously generative. — connects to: Hegelian abrogation is sublation working upon itself to achieve freedom — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,
, 1076; Philosophical propositions dialectically preserve, suppress, and present their cancelled form; Hegel’s aufheben conflates accepting and rejecting the given, hiding real revolt — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 87 (+2 more)
  • recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections